Patching Times?
Is there something specific that affects the length of downtimes for a patch? I believe the 5.3 maintenance lasted less than 3 hours, while we've had patches where downtime was over 6 hours.
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There are lots of specifics that affect patch times. It depends on what aspects of both the server and client software are changing. The server side can be extremely lengthy if any structural changes need to be made to databases. The client side can differ between machines if they have varying amounts of current default assets.
There are a lot of factors and a lot of possibilities for problems. That's why patch times are only estimates. They can't give exact numbers.
Source: I'm an IT professional who has experienced "4 hour" server upgrades that took multiple days and "1 day" upgrades that ended in mere hours.